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What it Means to Truly Believe Isaiah 53:1 · Life For Toledo

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  I'm thinking today of Isaiah 53 .1. Isaiah 53
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  .1, it says, Who has believed our message, and
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  to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
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  Now, this chapter of Isaiah goes on to very,
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  in a very kind of detailed way, talk about the
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  coming of Jesus. And so it's a great prophecy
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  from hundreds of years before Jesus was even
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  born about the life, death, burial, and resurrection
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  of Jesus. But here is Isaiah asking the question,
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  who has believed our report? And to whom has
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  the arm of the Lord been revealed? Now, I have
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  accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior,
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  and perhaps you have too. I hope you have. And
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  I know many that... profess to have accepted
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  Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, and they
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  testify that the God of heaven did save their
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  soul, that he now lives in them, his Holy Spirit
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  lives in them. I understand that there are a
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  lot of variations of the way people live once
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  they accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.
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  Some of them may not look to us like they are
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  even living for the Lord, that they even know
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  what a Lord is. The Lord is a person who tells
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  you what to do, and you do it. That being said,
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  Jesus has been revealed as the arm of the Lord,
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  and there are those who believe in Jesus who
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  are making a report of what they have experienced
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  with Jesus coming in to lead their lives. Jesus
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  is leading my life, and I love him, and I want
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  to follow him every day, and he leads me every
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  day. And if you're sharing your report, you might
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  ask this very same question. The bottom line
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  is, do you believe? Have you believed in the
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  report and seen the arm of the Lord revealed?
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  I hope you have.